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Wednesday, 6 December 2017

WALT: Identify relationships by using graphs.
For week 7 Mrs Tele'a gave the Tapaono an activity all about Interpreting graphs and creating graphs. This activity has helped the Tapaono strengthen their thinking about Graphs.

This year was my very first year of been in Extension and I have had a blast with Mrs Langitupu and the Year 8's and 7's. This experience of being in Extension has helped me improve more on my coding and helped me understand more about Scratch. My advise for the Year 6's who are going to be in Extension next year is to always try your best and always pay attention of what is happening. I would like to say thank you to Mrs Langitupu and Zoey from OMGT for helping me throughout the year.

One thing that I enjoyed about being in Extension was doing new tasks for a new term. I also really enjoyed working together with my friends and finding solutions for our problems throughout the year. My highlights for extension was when we were filming for our school Maniakalani Film Festival which was a lot of fun. I hope that I'm in Extension next year, Thank you Mrs Langitupu for a great experience this year.

Thursday, 30 November 2017

WALT - Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems AND adding and subtracting decimals
This Week for Week 6 Mrs Tele'a gave the Tapaono group Decimals for our maths activity. This activity was made to help us improve more on decimals before we do our Gloss test with Mrs Tele'a.

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

WALT - improve comprehension and understanding of a text
For this week's activity Ms Tapuke gave the Kauri group Sea Snakes. The article mostly talks about where sea snakes live, what they eat and how they survive.

Saturday, 18 November 2017

WALT - identify key information in a text
For this week activity for the Kauri group we had to read a story called Sport or way of life the story mostly talks about the benfits of running and how you can get involed in running to. Some things I learned from the story was: 1. You don't need expensive eqitment 2. It strengthens your muscles,heart and lungs. Lastly we had to finish the presentation above, Hope you like it.

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Did you watch the Tonga vs Kiwis game at Hamilton last week on Saturday? It seemed the Tonga team was the favourites to win the game as we saw a sea of red around the Stadium. In the first half the Kiwis was leading by 16-2, but that all changed in the second half where the Tonga team made a strong comeback by scoring 4 quick tries to secure they win, creating a great surprise to everyone. The Tonga team now progress through to the quarter-finals against Lebanon in Christchurch this Saturday while the Kiwis will face Fiji in Wellington. The team’s that I want to win the Rugby League cup is Kiwis or Toa Samoa.

Thursday, 9 November 2017

WALT - Use 2 different strategies to solve word problems
Today I have finished my group Tapaono's activity for week 4. This week's activity was all about Word problems. This activity had different kinds of word problems, like times and division.

Sunday, 5 November 2017

WALT - use different reading comprehension strategies
For week 2 Ms Tapuke gave the Kuari reading group a activity for week 2, and this activity was all about Comprehension, and one thing that I learned abut this activity was more about Carnivorous plants.

Friday, 3 November 2017

WALT - generate questions
For week 1 Ms Tapuke gave the Kauri reading group The Rat. In this activity we got to learn more about the 4 sections of an Orchestra which are: The String family, Woodwind family, Brass Family, and the Percussion Family.

This week for Inquiry we had to create a presentation about an orchestra and had to look on line about facts about a orchestra in groups of 2 or 3. My Buddy: Mereana made this presentation to share what we learned about an orchestra.

Thursday, 2 November 2017

W.A.L.T: Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.
This week for Week 3 Mrs Tele'a gave Tapaono and the rest of our maths group Test Practice #3. This time we had to create new 3 word problems at the end. This activity has helped me and everyone in my maths get more prepared for our Gloss Test.

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Last Term for extension we had a task to make a game show or make a musical instrument on Scratch with Makey-Makey and my group decided to make a game show. We had to all partner up into groups of 3 to 4 people and my group was: Alisha, Danielle and Ana, and today we hd to do a reflection of our experience.

The first thing we had to do was make up questions and search for the answer online. The next step we had to do was hook up the Makey-Makey kit on the computer, start coding the sounds and the backgrounds and we had to get Play-doh for our buzzers. In our group we all had different jobs to do, my job was to help Alisha hook up the wires and coding. The last step we had to do was test out everything with Zoey from OMG Tech and everything went smoothly.

When we presented our game we had two volunteers who were Talita and Simon. They each knew a few questions but at the end it all ended in a tie. Our group were very proud of our game and we were also proud of working together to finish of this Game for Term 3, and this task has helped me improve my knowledge for Makey-Makey.

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

WALT - a. Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.
This week for Maths Mrs Tele'a prepared a practice presentation about questions about the Gloss Test we will be having next week. This presentation had word problems, multiplication, fractions and many more. This Test Preparation has helped me learn and see what kind of questions I will be answering in the Gloss test.

Friday, 20 October 2017

To finish of Niue Language week for 2017 the Pt England Niue group prepared an item to share with the whole school for the special occasion.

Before they started Mrs Langitupu and a couple of students that knew how to speak fluent Niue did their introductions, and once they were finished a very popular Niue song come on and the Niue group started to sway and dance to the music. The girls were leading the dance while the boys were at back, all of the girl's looked like Niue Princess and the boys looked like Princes. To finish of the dance the Boys came to the front and began to do the Niue Haka.

When they dance was finished and were were heading back to their seats everybody could tell they were proud Niue kids and most parents had tears in their eyes. They all were proud of their Cultural, and the Niue theme for this year was:The Niue Language is the heart of Niue People.

Thursday, 19 October 2017

WALT: Use probability vocabulary to describe chances of an even.
To start of Term 4 Mrs Tele'a created a presentation about Statistics and Probability for Tapaono. In this presentation we were given questions of probability. For Example: What is the possibility of see a flying dog?", and we had to find out the answer for these questions. This presentation has helped me improve my thinking about Statistics and Probability much more.

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Term 4 has started and at the conor of Glen Innes Point England school were having their Immerson Assembly to start of the new term. Our new Theme for this term was Musical Madness!

To kick of the Assembly we had a surprise Performance by Mr Burt, Mrs Nua, Mr Sommerville, Mr J and Mr Wise man singing their new song called Musical Madness Saves the Day. Each teacher had an instrument to play, Mr J had his little trumpet, Mr Burt had his guitar Mrs Nua had a Tambourine, Mr Wise man was on the Bass and Mr Sommerville was rocking it out on the drums.

The next performance was Team 1. In their performance they were playing cards while different kind of music were playing in the playground and they also showed different emotions towards the music. For Team 2 Miss Gaston was the lead singer who was playing the ukulele and singing the song Lion sleeps Tonight, while different teachers came and joined her. The first teacher was Miss Peck who was playing a Castanet, Mrs Tomahai came on stage playing a Xylophone and the last teacher to join was Miss Nalder who was playing the bongos.

Team 3 was next they played a movie where they lip sync songs like: Sorry, Work, Cake by the ocean, Chandeliar, and many more and they were also doing songs in real life. Team 4 did something similar but they were doing they songs in the car like Carpool Karoke, and at the end of the movie it said Make car rides more fun. Team 5 was the last to preform they performance was having a family movie night while watching lion king while differnt songs played in the playground like: Let it go, Roar and many more. My favourite part about team 5 item was when Let it go was finish playing Mrs Tele'a said: "Don't let the baby go" which made everyone laugh.

My top 3 team's was Team 3, 4 and 5 because they had creative movies and performance and made me laugh and made me have a good time.

Sunday, 15 October 2017

It the last week of School Holidays and I am really exicted to get back to school. I am really exicted to see my friends and see my AWESOME teacher Mrs Tele'a.

The last few weeks I mostly spent my holidays going to my Mum's work place and I have really enjoyed spending time again with my mother. I really hope all of Team 5 students and Teachers had a wonderful School Holiday.

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Have you ever wondered what MMP means? While now you got the answer,MMP actually stands for: Mixed Member Proportional.

In New Zealand, we vote using the MMP voting system and each voter gets two votes, one vote is for a Party and the other one is for a candidate, but only the people that have New Zealand citizenship and people that doesn’t have any criminal sentences can vote.

There are 120 seats in the Parliament, and each party needs the majority of 61 or more to win, right now National is in the lead with 58 seats while Labour has 45 seats. In New Zealand right now New zealand First has a very big decision to make about who to work with National or Labour?

So in New Zealand right now the leader of New Zealand first is talking to each leader of Labour and National to see what their Policies are and what their plans are for New Zealdn.So what do YOU think should Winston Peters(Leader of New Zealand First) work with Labour or National?

Sunday, 24 September 2017

Kiwi and Samoan heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker has held on his WBO title by beating Briton Hughie Fury in their 12 round title fight in Manchester.

Two Judges had Parker winning 118-110 while the third Judge had 114 all. All of the rounds were even with Parker unable to land the knockout blow while Fury mostly spent his time on the back foot to keep out of trouble.

This win for the 25 year old Parker takes his unbeaten record to 24 wins, and it is Fury’s first lost in 21 bouts.

WALT understand how leadership of groups in communities and societies.
Today I have finished my Reading activty for Week 7 and this activity was about the Elections that are happening in 2017. On this activity we had to name and insert images of each party and many other things.

As Room 3 were preparing to film for the Manaiakalani Film Festival, which was held every year since 2008.But before we could film we had to come up with some idea's that we thought might go great with The Film Festival. At the end of class we had come up with three thrilling idea's for Manaiakalani Film Festival.

When my group started filming I found learning and remembering my lines difficult and also trying not to laugh when someone said something humorous really challenging, but one thing that I found good was that my group actually finished filming in only 1 HOUR! and once our group watched the film our Class Room filled with laughter because the film was so humerous. I am really looking forward to seeing Room 3's movies on the big screen and I Guarantee our movie is the BEST!!

Monday, 18 September 2017

WALT: Explain or show the steps we took to solve each problem
This activity that Mrs Tele'a gave us to work on was about using Ratio and Proportion to solve Word Problems. Thanks to this activity it helped me to improve my knowledge about Ratio and Proportion.

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

WALT: Identify and calculate the perimeter and area of various shapes.
Today I have finished my followup activity for Week 6. This presentation is all about Area and Perimeter in a shape, and my group Tapaono had to figure out the word problems about the Width and length of the Shape.

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

On Friday Mrs Tele'a's Home class had to make a solar system model.We got into groups of 1 to 3 and find out what the planets look like and the size of what the Planet looks like. Here is the model me and my Partners come up with.

Monday, 11 September 2017

WALT - make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)
Today I have fisnihed my reading activity for week 3&4. This activity was about Find hidden meanings in a text in two and write what we learnt about it on the presentation.

Monday, 4 September 2017

WALT - make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)
Today I have finished my reading activity for Week 3 and 4. This activity is about reading different texts and finding out Who, what and how the character was in the text.

WALT: Identify the Author's Purpose
Today I have finished my reading activity for week 5 and 6. This activity talks about how the space craft Galileo's mission to Jupiter and what happened along the way. The purpose of this reading activity was to find out what the author was trying to inform, entertain or persuade in the article.

Thursday, 24 August 2017

WALT: Reviewing our knowledge of fractions using word problems. Can I interpret what the question is asking me?
On this presentation my group Tapaono had to solve these word problems for week 4, and once we finished the presentation we had to find a buddy to work with, pick one word problem and record how we got our answer. At the end of this presentation we learned how to use a new recording site and how to figure out how to solve word problems faster.

WALT: Explore the use of 'Screencastify' to explain how I problem solve. Clearly display my working using this process.
Today I have finished my Word problems for week 5. My group Tapaono had to do this presentation about word problems where we had to solve problems on each slide. One thing that my group Tapaono has learned from doing this activity was finding out what operation to use (+,-,x,/)

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

Today my group Tapaono had to use a recording add called Screencastify where we had to buddyup and pick one problem from the presentation and share how we got our answer.

The person that I buddied up for this occuasion was Inez from my group and we worked on problem 3. Problem 3 talked about how tall was Mr Murrin and his brother tom, and we had to find out how tall was Tom. See the video above to see how me and Inez got our answer.

How to use Screencastify:

Screencastify is an app on our netbook that records anything like word problems and much more. Screencastify is coloured black and has white holes and should be on the right side of your chromebooks, and now Screencastify is now used many ways in Team 5.

Monday, 21 August 2017

On August the 5th me and my mum: Lautifa, went to Samoa for a family funeral.

I was really excited to see my family again but at the same time

I was really sad that my Great Grandpa passed away.

When I stepped at outside the Virgin Australia aircraft I instlanty knew that the

air in Samoa was going to be really hot. I looked at the building in front of me that

was called Faleolo International Airport which was one of the most busiest building

in all of Samoa. Once all of the passengers arrived in the building to check in we

were greeted by the sound of traditional Samoan music played by 4 men.

As passengers walked passed them they threw $20 or $10 in front of them like donation,

once we passed Security, bag pick up and passport check we arrived

outside to where we were greeted by the happy faces of my family.

After a round of hugs and kisses we scrambled in our family van which sped through

the night as I admired the fale's (houses) pass by, and at that same time

I was really happy to be back in my home country. On Sunday morning we all got ready to

go to Savaii we the other half of my family lived, when we arrived at the Wharf we got our tickets

and waited for Lady Samoa II Ship to arrive. The boat arrived in 10 miuntes and everybody

boarded the ship which glided smoothly across the ocean, after 15 miuntes of looking outside

the window I fell into a deep sleep. When we arrived in Savaii and got off the boat we sped off

to our house in Vaisaulu, once we arrived we saw that no one was at home because they

were all off at Church, so we waited and waited.

When my family arrived they all got changed and had dinner togther and talked about how if everthing was okay. When we had to leave Samoa was really sad that I had to leave my family back again and come back, but before we went through the gates and grandma told me,"Even if don't live in Samoa, always remember that Samoa is your home and you are a true Samoan girl" I hugged her tight and said Goodbye, but now I will always know where I came from I will always be a true island girl!!

Note: Here is a Samoan song that I love and will always remind me that Samoa is my Home. SONG and the English and Samoan version, SONG 2

Sunday, 20 August 2017

Today I have finished my Cyber-smart activity for this week. On this activity our class had to pick a kiwi athlete and explore their profiles and write what ever we learned about them on slide 3, and on the very last slide we had to create our own future profile of what I want to accomplish in 10 or 20 years time.

Thursday, 17 August 2017

WALT- Revise and Remember our knowledge on fractions
Today I worked these fraction Problems out. Mrs Tele'a's maths class group Tapaono's week 2 activity is about fractions. On this presentation it has problems where you have identify fractions, adding fractions and simplifying fractions, and this helped me improve my knowledge about fractions.

Friday, 4 August 2017

Last week Mrs Tele'a's home class started on a new task for inquiry. The task was about researching our I wonder question. For example: I wonder why we have other planets and we would have to type down on the presentation above and we had to reasearch the answer for the I wonder question.

Thursday, 3 August 2017

WALT: Learning about how we measure things everyday - from the non-standard methods through to standard.
Last week Mrs Tele'a's maths class did a measuring followup where we all had to use our footprint to measure objects and to find out how many millimetres, centermeters and meters in the object, and I learned more about millimeters ,centermeter and meters.

Wednesday, 19 July 2017

My holiday so far has being fun because I get to spend time with my aunty: Misilani sice she came from Samoa before the holiday's started. Our time schelued for ever morning is:
- Brush your teeth and wash your face
- Have breakfast
- Play music on the laptop
- Tidy up the house and our rooms
So my holiday is not the fun like some kids get to go to rainbow's end or going to the beach with family and friends, but I'm happy that I get to spend time together with my aunty these school holidays. And the other good news is that my birthday is coming up in thirteen days. (August the 2nd) Can't wait!!

Sunday, 9 July 2017

Hooray!!! It's the school holiday's. It is finally the school holidays for kids I am so exicted for this school holidays because I get to spend more time with my family. Here are some idea's that I came up with to make these school holidays more exicting

Week 1: Probeley go to the Pamure basin with my family and have a walk around and get some fitness at the same time, or go to Mission bay beach and have a little swim around and have a picnic.

Week 2: Maybe go to Rainbow's End and have some fun on the rides and take pictures of the family and put it on the family tree.

So these are my idea's of what I want to happen in the school holidays. What would your idea for a prefect holiday be?

Thursday, 6 July 2017

WALT: Investigate situations that invole chance and identifying possible outcomes
This is my activity for week 9/10, this presentation was all about Probability about things that can happen unlikely, likely or certain. My favourtie slide would probley be slide 7 because it was really fun thinking about things that would happen to me.

In extension this term our focus is on coding, so a few weeks ago me and my partner: Alisha have started our game for scratch where we had to make a space game. The worst problem that we had was broadcasting and making sure we had the right coding.

On the first level me and my partner: Alisha, we each did a job to finish the level, so I did the backgrounds and half of the coding while Alisha did the other half and did the drawings of the sprites.

Problem: The problem that we had throughout the game was broadcasting because me and my partner still had problem increasing our knowledge for broadcasting.

Solution: Zoe from OMG Tech taught us there was an easier way to broadcast on scratch and she also helped us to learn more about broadcasting.

My favourite part about coding this Term for Extension was that I really got to bond with my partner and that I increased my knowledge for coding more than last term.

Wednesday, 5 July 2017

A few weeks ago the Extension group visited a website and each person read an articale and the articale that I read was How have Advances in space technology helped us on Earth

Here what I found out:

1.In the story How have Advances in Space Technology helped us on earth I have learned that the two GOES Satellites that are operating on the west and east side of the United states of America and can let us track and warn people in vulnerable places when or where a hurricane will hit.

2.I have also learned that Satellites can operate how we can see and locate oceans, deserts, Cities but some people on earth have GPS and can locate the places much easier.

3.And one thing that I have learned is that Satellites have shown that the ozone on the earth are disappearing over some parts of the Earth and are trying to find a way to use less damaging chemicals to our atmosphere.

4. The last thing that I have learned from this story is that Two other satellites: TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason 1 have been studying the oceans, and they help us understand the complex movement of ocean water.

1.In the story How have Advances in Space Technology helped us on earth I have learned that the two GOES Satellites that are operating on the west and east side of the United states of America and can let us track and warn people in

Monday, 3 July 2017

WALT: Identify the mean, median and the mode in data sets.
Today I have finished my maths activity for week 8. On this presentation it talks about Finding the Mean, Median and Mode. My favourite slide is slide 7 because it was fun asking people what was their favourite food was and it was fun making the Graph.

Friday, 30 June 2017

Today my group the i phones have finished making our project for inquiry which was a: Garden. The good news is that we finished it and it really has improved how the school look likes. But the bad news is that their are some gaps in the garden and some of the soil are uneven.

We finished making our Garden on Thursday and we are planning to make some little signs that will tell people to respect the garden and not to walk or pick the flowers. Here is a photo of what the garden looked like when we finished:

Thursday, 29 June 2017

This Week my group for Tech made healthy Muffins. The ingredients that we used was:
* Oats
* Butter
* Berries
* Syrup
* Brown Sugar
* And white Chocolate
When we tasted the Muffin for the first time it tasted really nice and was really oily. I really enjoyed tasting it and well done to me and my Partner: Mereana.

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Today our group the Iphones have started to get the materials and started to make models for our garden that we are going to try and make for inquiry this Term. This Term’s korero is Now that’s Thinking and This term, Team 5 are going to try and make a model or product that can help School life get better.

For this special occasion our Team the Iphone's decided to make a garden outside Room 1 to help the appearance of the school increase, and today we have started to get the equipment and materials that we needed to make this product work. This is the list of the things we needed:

Shovels

Gloves

Change of Clothes

Flowers

We have decided to start planting next week on Tuesday and maybe Wednesday and really hope that we can try and make the garden

Today the year 7's went to Tech at Tamaki College. We were split into groups and the group that I was in was Cooking. In cooking we made pasta with Corn,Salami and onions. Here a a picture that shows what it looks like:

W.A.L.T. Identify the mean, median and mode in data sets
Today I have finished my Maths activity for week 7. On this presentation it has activites to find the mean, median and a mode in a ranch of numbers.

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Why is Education so important in our lives?. Education plays a very important role in our lives and for everybody that goes through life. Getting a proper education is very important, it helps us to have a successful and good life. It support’s the feeling of physical,mental, and social well being for a better life. It helps a person to improve his/her’s critical thinking at school or anywhere on the planet. It provides us lots of confidence by increasing our knowledge each day, and the more knowledge we get, we grow and develop more in life. So my question for you is do you want your education to be successful and free?

Monday, 12 June 2017

W.A.L.T. Find and si,arise Key information in a Text
Today I have finished my reading activity. On this presentation I teach's me about Plant's that can heal people's sickness and I also have learned that Manuka Honey can heal people's sore's.

Friday, 9 June 2017

Today my group the Iphones were busy trying to find out what project we should do for our Inquiry:Now That’s Thinking. My group was torn between the choices of making a cafeteria or making a flower garden. When we finally made our decision we decided that it would be easy to make a flower garden to help the appearance of the school when visitors come past, or when people walk past they can see what we have been working on.For the past few weeks the Iphones have been planning and making design's about what the garden will look like when it is finished. The iphones are hoping that we can finish it before the term finish's.

Thursday, 8 June 2017

WALT: I will identify patterns and trends in context, within and between data sets; communicating findings, using data displays. Find the mean, median, mode and the range which is part of analysing data.

Statistics name:Sheena

WALT- Identify the mean, median and mode within a collection of data

Activity One

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the mean in a statistical investigation is commonly referred to as the average. It is the total of all the data divided by the amount of data shown.

For example: if we have this range of data 3,5,7,1,2,3,6,8

3+5+7+1+2+3+6+5 = 32 = 4

8 8

Find the mean in this set of numbers

3,7,8,4,2,6,5,4,3,9= 51 divided by 10=5.1

Find the mean in the set of numbers

4,12,5,6,11,9,5=52 divided by 7=7.4

Find the mean in this tally chart: 10,12,4,2=28 divided by 7=4

Pets owned by students

Number of students

Dogs

IIIII IIIII

Cats

IIIII IIIII II

Fish

IIII

Rabbits

II

Find the mean in this set of numbers

24,12,16,18=70 divided by 4=17.5

Find the mean in this set of numbers

5,9,12,4,10,7=47 divided by 6= 7.8

CHALLENGE QUESTION: Find the mean within this data, use the frequency table to help you

1,5,5,2,1,2,5,5,5,5,1,2,1,5,5=3.3

Score

Frequency

1

4

2

3

5

8

Total

15

Activity Two

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the median is the middle number within a set of numbers that have been put in order from size (biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest)

For example: 2,6,4,1,9 = 1,2,4,6,9 and the middle number is 4.

BUT say if there is more than one middle number… the median is found by taking the number midway between the middle pair of numbers:

3,6,1,4,9,2 = 1,2,3,4,6,9 → 3 + 4 = 3.5

2

Find the median in these sets of numbers

10,14,17,12,19,11,16, 14 is the middle number

34,42,37,31,40: 37 is the middle number

101, 167,138,124,198,149, 143 is the middle number

54, 58,52,57,53,60, the middle number is 55.5

1001, 1094, 1023, 1065, 1038, 1027, 1042: the middle number is 1038

Find the median within this tally chart

Pets owned by students

Number of students

Dogs

IIIII IIIII

Cats

IIIII II

Fish

IIII

Rabbits

IIIII III

Hamsters

II

The middle number from the tally chart from above is: 7

Activity Three

The mode is the most frequent number in a set of data. The number that occurs most often.

For example: In a set of numbers 3, 7, 8, 4, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9 there is two modes, 3 and 4 because they appear twice in the data set.

Note- There can either be 0, 1 or 2 modes. If there are 3 or more numbers occur the same number of times, there is no mode.

Contributors

Sheena

About Me

Talofa lava, and greetings to you all, my name is Sheena and I am a year 7 student at Point England school.

Some things that I love is playing netball, playing with my friends and spending time with my family. My favourite things to do at school is reading, maths, playing netball, and being in Mrs Tele'a’s home class.

My goal for 2017 is getting better at every subject and being sure to Strive to Succeed!!